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WCDT 23-27 November 2015 (Strips 3096-3100)
BenRG:
Have you ever heard the saying "It sounds weirder than it actually was"? Something tells me that this didn't apply in the event that Hannelore was describing today. You are left with the duty to visualise Penny barricading the restrooms and singing La Marseillaise in a raucous voice. Did Tai have to drag Dora away in the end?
Meanwhile, it tells you a lot that the response Hanners has to May is: "Oh, that's May." Building up immunity through exposure seems to be a thing socially too!
Perfectly Reasonable:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 25 Nov 2015, 20:05 --- At least it appears no AIs are forced into a life not of their choosing.
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Lessee... Momo seeks a way to repay the debt she feels she owes to Marigold. So she gets a library job. As an AI, she is able to plug directly into the library databases. In my head canon, she acts as an intelligent search engine for them. And does a job a human could not do nearly as well.
May finds herself exploring the lower rungs of the economic ladder. She could probably do some kind of high level data manipulating job, but given her history, who would trust her? (And could she do such a job without being bored to tears?) So she gets jobs mere humans could do (but would rather not). If she were "equipped", and willing to pander to the base desires of the fleshlings, her range of choices would be wider. If not more attractive.
Bubbles ... seems to be trapped inside her own head. Her original motivation, a noble one, has led her into despondence. What she could do, she would not.
I seem to be groping toward the notion that these AIs, while limited by circumstance, are not denied choice. In the sense that there are no restrictive laws, no piles of burning robot bodies, they are still able to find their own destiny.
Perfectly Reasonable:
As for today's comic, I would dismiss it as utter nonsense, except that we know we can rely on Hannelore to be truthful. The only thing we learn from history is that we've been reading the wrong kind of history. I think what Penelope actually wanted was to organize a worker's soviet. The means of caffinization belong in the hands of the people!
Mad Cat:
Why did Hanners shrink upwards of 4" between panels 3 & 4?
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Tova on 26 Nov 2015, 22:11 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 26 Nov 2015, 20:59 ---Irreplaced?
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Perfectly cromulent.
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I'm not finding it anywhere. Does it just mean "not replaced"?
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